Luckily I won’t live to see us run out of fuel.
You guys do realize that North America has enough coal to power us for centuries. We might choke on the fumes and long for the days of cheaper fuel but running out isn’t going to happen.
Not to mention that even now with existing solar technology we could cover a few hundred miles of Arizona and have enough electricity to run the whole country. Of course they say it would cost trillions but what else do we need to spend the money on?
[quote]analog_kid wrote:
Gerg wrote:
Just wait until the Zombies come. Then we’re in big trouble.
And not the slow, dumb ones either, The smart, sprinting ones.
And since they’re decomposing, they are probably depleting the ozone layer even faster by just walking around.
I’ll be in my fortified bunker.
See, if they are the 28 Days/Weeks/Months/Years zombies, we are all fucked. But if they are the usual slow moving retarded zombies, that is basically my idea of a good time.
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Actually those are far less frightening.
They are still human beings after all, after 2 weeks most of them would be dead because of lack of water and food.
The rest would be weak and dying.
To dumb to keep an infrastructure going.
The slow ones might be easy one on one but if you are the only target in the area they, slowly, they might all come to you.
And they take months to decompose.
Unless its summer.
Then they are gone in two weeks.
Several super massive volcanoes are building up pressure as we type. Eventually they will erupt and cause a mass extinction.
A gamma ray burst will wipe out all life barring microbial on the 1/2 of the earth facing the burst.
Tiny mutations in viruses could eventually cause an untreatable and exponentially expanding pandemic.
ad infinitum…
There are more severe inevitable things to worry about.
Or better yet don’t worry at all.
I’m sure that a ‘breakthrough’ technology will be revealed as soon as the oil runs out.
[quote]LiftSmart wrote:
But on the plus side, the other half will turn into the hulk.
[quote]There are more severe inevitable things to worry about.
Or better yet don’t worry at all.
I’m sure that a ‘breakthrough’ technology will be revealed as soon as the oil runs out. [/quote]
And its hard to wade through the hype to find the real truth. I grew up when there was an energy crisis, OPEC holding onto oil due to “shortages”, and we were worried about “global cooling”.
Hmmm well If zombies happen I think eventually we could handle them. What I’m worried about is having to take a step back in technology. Coal compared to hybrid vehicles? Yea not clean and supposedly we’re suffering from global warming already?
I just don’t want my kids to grow up shit out of luck. Hopefully a new president will help usher in some new ideas and change the way we do things. I’d like to see a democrat aka obama win this time. Enough horrible retarded republicans.
[quote]Natural Nate wrote:
Gerg wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
Gerg wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
Have we learned nothing from Waterworld?
Yes.
Dennis Hopper will be in any movie if the price is right.
He still kicks ass though.
True. One of my favorite “over the top” guys. Except now he does retirement commercials. Which kinda makes me sad.
When I see that commercial I keep hoping he goes, “You gotta live your dreams! …NOW DON’T JUST STAND THERE - KILL SOMETHING!!!”[/quote]
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?
Tesla Free Energy.
[quote]LiftSmart wrote:
This one is interesting. Does everyone know about the Yellowstone Caldera? The last three eruptions were:
2.1 MYA, 1.3 MYA, and 640,000 years ago.
The interval between eruptions has usually been about 600,000 years. The last time the thing blew it buried North America in a meter of ash. It’s expected that the next eruption will have a force 2,500X that of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption and 16X that of 1815 Mount Tambora eruption (also known as “The Year Without A Summer”). The Yellowstone eruption is expected to eject 7,000 cubic km of material. In the 1980 Mout St. Helens eruption only 2.8 cubic km of material was ejected.
Scary thought.
[quote]LiftSmart wrote:
I’m sure that a ‘breakthrough’ technology will be revealed as soon as the oil runs out. [/quote]
Well, I have a hard time believing our economy will still function past the $7/gal mark. It’s already suffering pretty bad at $4 gas.
That solar idea I would be all for. I would much rather we spent a trillion dollars on putting solar panels across a few hundred miles of Arizona or building nuclear power plants than continuing to export all of our dollars for oil. Sadly, our government has no foresight, nor any will to rock the voter’s boats.
Has anyone here seen gashole? It’s a documentary about the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels.
[quote]Gerg wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
Gerg wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
Gerg wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
Have we learned nothing from Waterworld?
Yes.
Dennis Hopper will be in any movie if the price is right.
He still kicks ass though.
True. One of my favorite “over the top” guys. Except now he does retirement commercials. Which kinda makes me sad.
When I see that commercial I keep hoping he goes, “You gotta live your dreams! …NOW DON’T JUST STAND THERE - KILL SOMETHING!!!”
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?
[/quote]
Shoot the hostage?
[quote]Gerg wrote:
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?
[/quote]
Depends on whether I’m on the bus or off the bus.
Yo Momma*
[quote]Manofsteel319 wrote:
Ok I have been reading and supposedly our fossil fuels are burning out. What happens when we have no gas for vehicles and everything that we rely on and take for granted goes away. No more planes? No more cars no more anything?
What would happen if everything we take for granted went away? Scary to think that maybe that will happen.
I think we would all have to become farmers again. All of us strong people would be ok but the elderly and the fat people would have problems with it.
Any opinions or ideas on this?[/quote]
you should be more worried about all the products made from petrochemicals/petroleum
you can say goodbye to medicines, plastics and our favorite: supplements
[quote]Makavali wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
We also learned that melting polar ice caps will cover 99.9999% of the earth’s surface in water - rather than raise the ocean level around 20 feet.
Ah hyped up science.
Love it.[/quote]
might want to take a course in thermodynamics before you say that
[quote]cyph31 wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
We also learned that melting polar ice caps will cover 99.9999% of the earth’s surface in water - rather than raise the ocean level around 20 feet.
Ah hyped up science.
Love it.
might want to take a course in thermodynamics before you say that[/quote]
Melting the floating polar icecaps will not raise the sea level one inch.
Melting glaciers that form lakes (as will happen in Greenland) will not raise the sea level either. The only way to raise the sea level is to have land based glaciers melt and pour into the river and to warm the oceans and/or have thermal expansion.
The yellowstone caldera erupting would probably cripple a portion of the US. Much smaller volcanoes have pushed so much dust into the air that worldwide temperature averages for a year have gone down by a couple degrees - this centered in the middle of the U.S. would be pretty catastrophic, probably for the entire world. This is actually something that could conceivably happen in our lifetime or our children’s, but obviously unlikely, like was stated above the last one was 640,000 years ago.
Polar ice caps melting would suck, there definitely would be plenty of places under sea level, but it doenst happen overnight so i’m sure levies and barriers could be built, similar to new orleans. I have no idea how bad it would be if they melted completely.
A Gamma radiation burst could happen, but it’d be pretty unlikely to occur in our lifetime or our children’s lifetime or even in the lifetime of humanity…although recently discovered to be more common than previously thought, they’re still incredibly uncommon. Stars live literally billions of years. But yeah, basically everything dead.
Hmmm…most likely doomsday scenario in my opinion is definitely ourselves - way too many crazy fundamentalists out there who would think they’re doing the world a service by setting off a nuke in the home of their enemies. I doubt it would take many of today’s nukes to have a serious permanent difference on the earth’s climate. That being said…all out nuclear war is still pretty farfetched.
The problem with super-diseases like ebola that are fatal is that they kill themselves off…ebola kills within like 48 hours so it decimates a population but then has nowhere else to go. A super-flu could probably severely cripple us but I doubt it could destroy most of humanity.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
cyph31 wrote:
Makavali wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
We also learned that melting polar ice caps will cover 99.9999% of the earth’s surface in water - rather than raise the ocean level around 20 feet.
Ah hyped up science.
Love it.
might want to take a course in thermodynamics before you say that
Melting the floating polar icecaps will not raise the sea level one inch.
Melting glaciers that form lakes (as will happen in Greenland) will not raise the sea level either. The only way to raise the sea level is to have land based glaciers melt and pour into the river and to warm the oceans and/or have thermal expansion. [/quote]
Don’t forget killer air that follows you into buildings.